Press release

Anastasi says team fought hard for win over China

Some changes were needed before Poland found back the right rhythm to edge China

Fukuoka, November 27, 2011 - Press conference Poland v China.

Poland coach Andrea Anastasi: "Today wasn't a perfect match for my team. The most important thing is that after the terrible first set, we continued to fight and got the three points".

China coach Jianan Zhou: "The opponents gave us a chance to play our own game, but we could not do it. Our players don't have the experience against the bigger teams. This is our challenge for the future. We don't know how bad the injury is to No. 10 (Ping Chen). He sprained his ankle, that is all we know. If he is OK, he will play tomorrow. He is our biggest scorer, so if he doesn't play it will have a big effect".

Poland captain Marcin Mozdzonek: "We are very happy that we won despite playing bad. The coach made some changes and we began playing better and got the three points".

Poland player Bartosz Kurek: "Another three points is very important to keep us in the lead at the World Cup. We had problems before the coach made changes. Then we blocked better. I was not happy with my serve today".

China captain Cui Jianjun: "It was a really hard match. Unfortunately we lost. When No. 10 left it affected us mentally. We want to try our best for the next match".

China player Runming Li: "The No. 10 player leaving hurt us because he had scored almost half our points. We made some mistakes with blocking from the second set".